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Stay tuned for details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are quite pleased with the breadth of experience represented in our nominees \u2014 from a poet who has just signed a contract for his second book to mainstays of contemporary Appalachian poetry,&#8221; professor Jeremy Paden said. &#8220;Likewise, we are quite happy to see the variety of genres represented: poetry, fiction, young adult fiction and novels in verse. The nominees alone speak to the rich and vibrant literary community of this region.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transylvania invited nominations for the 2024-25 academic year from readers, publishers and literary organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nominees\">Nominees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ashley Blooms<\/strong>, a native of Cutshin, Kentucky, has written two novels, &#8220;Every Bone a Prayer&#8221; and &#8220;Where I Can&#8217;t Follow,\u201d which was a finalist for a Weatherford Award. Both highly praised, magical-realist works take up life in modern Appalachia and deal with various kinds of trauma. Their nominator noted that the novels resonate with and inspire Appalachian and LGBTQ+ plus students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Willie Carver<\/strong> is originally from Printer, Kentucky, and now lives in Mount Sterling. In 2022, he won the Kentucky Teacher of the Year Award. His first book of poems, &#8220;Gay Poems for Red States,&#8221; was named an Honor Book for the 2024 Stonewall Book Award. He has just signed a second book contract with the University Press of Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ellen Hagan<\/strong>, a Kentucky native who lives in New York, began her journey as a writer in earnest through the Governor&#8217;s School for the Arts. She is a member of the Affrilachian poets, and for a long time she worked as a writing instructor in the GSA program. She is the author of three collections of poems, three young adult novels in verse and two co-authored young adult novels. &#8220;All That Shines,&#8221; her most recent novel in verse, is a love letter to Kentucky set in Bardstown. It takes up questions of class, landscape, feminism and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pauletta Hansel<\/strong>, though born and raised in southeastern Kentucky, held the inaugural position of Cincinnati poet laureate between 2016-18 (she&#8217;s lived there since 1979). Her collection &#8220;Palindrome&#8221; won the Weatherford, and her collection &#8220;Heartbreak Tree&#8221; won the North American Book Award given by the Poetry Society of Virginia. She has long been a member and a leader of the Southern Appalachian Writers Collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jane Hicks<\/strong>, a native of northeast Tennessee, is a poet, fiber artist and teacher. She is the author of three collections of poems and has long been involved with the Appalachian Writer&#8217;s Workshop at Hindman. Her first two books won the James Still Award for Poetry from the Appalachian Writers Association. \u201cThe Safety of Small Things,\u201d her most recent book, is a lyrical examination of her experience with breast cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leatha Kendrick<\/strong>, a native of southern Kentucky, has long been associated with the Appalachian Writers Workshop at Hindman. She is the author of five books of poems. Her most recent collection, &#8220;And Luckier,&#8221; has been praised as masterful and complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Julia Watts<\/strong>, is from southeastern Kentucky and lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. She is the author of multiple middle-grade fiction, young adult fiction and adult novels and has won numerous Lambda Awards. Her nominator said her most recent book, &#8220;Quiver,&#8221; addresses the current culture wars and how to overcome differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award committee looked for authors with a significant body of work that resonates with the Appalachian experience, along with individual voices deemed important to the literary landscape of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recognition was established through the generosity of neurosurgeon Byron Young \u201961 in honor of his late wife Judy \u201962, an avid reader and poet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-past-winners\">Past winners<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Holly Goddard Jones (2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Green (2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crystal Wilkinson (2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathleen Driskell (2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silas House (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank X Walker (2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Gipe (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeff Worley (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Taylor (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Ella Lyon 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